Dewey’s Readathon!

Wow. This October marks the 10th anniversary of Dewey’s Readathon, and if you have no idea what I’m talking about, I urge you to check this link out. It’s an amazing thing that I look forward to every time it rolls around. This year they are doing 30 Days of Readathon leading up to it and it looks like a blast. So here’s the chart if you want to keep up with me.

I’m a few days behind, but I’ll try and catch up as quickly as possible, when life allows me to. Being a writer with a day job does have it’s downsides.

30. Favorite Book

Gosh, that’s like trying to pick a favorite child or pet. My library isn’t 2500+ strong because I’m not really a big reader. There are a few that I habitually go back to, some that I own in several formats, and then there are some that I continually buy and re-buy because I keep flinging them at people (Good Omens, if you’re curious. I’ve bought it about 19-20 times by now). So I will talk about one of the books that I re-read frequently. It’s an old book, written by Edgar Rice Burroughs back in 1912 and it’s the first in the Barsoom series. I’m talking, of course, of A Princess of Mars. You might be more familiar with the movie based on it that Disney put out years ago, titled John Carter. The movie itself is excellent and a fairly decent adaptation of the first two Barsoom books. This book mixed my love of fantasy and history with my love of space and gave me exciting adventures

Cover (taken from wikipedia.com)

on a far away planet. It gave me a heroine that wasn’t the traditional damsel in distress. She’s a competent adventurer, fully capable of defending herself and surviving the wilds of Mars without John’s help. The movie made her the leading scientist of Helium, which was something I adored. It gave me a healthy romance pairing and aliens who weren’t humans in funny costumes. It gave me a world that felt alive and lived in.

It’s the first out of a long series and overall, it’s one of my favorite reads and re-reads because it’s all around a great story.